Word: cubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baby Bombs. Troubled by the daily succession of "baby bombs" which have made Cuba pandemonium for weeks without doing much real damage (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.), Dictator-President Gerardo Machado offered last week to compromise with his detonating enemies...
Government would promptly put through Congress an amnesty bill and restore to Cuba's people the Constitutional rights which Dictator Machado suspended last autumn. Fascist Medicine- As an antidote to Italian business depression Dictator Mussolini prescribed lowered wages and lowered prices three months ago (TIME, Dec. 1). Fortnight ago came the first strike by Italian workmen in many years (TIME, April 6). Last week Dictator Mussolini decided that his patient had taken enough anti-depression medicine. "We have reached a limit [in wage cuting]," declared II Duce at Rome, "beyond which it is impossible to go without running into...
...from the Canal Zone came the cruiser Rochester. The transport Chaumont, due at Corinto in four days, raced at full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than...
...General Manager W. Paul Vecker of Compania Cubana de Electricidad. Unescorted, tugging at a heavy suitcase, small Paul went to Newark airport, boarded an Eastern Air Transport plane for Miami, there to change to Pan American Airways, to spend his Easter holidays with his parents in Cuba...
Where it comes from I do not know. Perhaps old in Cuba, perhaps from nearby Haiti whence cane cutters come annually. Lie awake in the towns of Haiti in the still of night and drum beats of similar rhythm float down to you from the hills...